Een greep uit mogelijke onderwerpen, in willekeurige volgorde:
‐ Folk music movements in Flanders and the Netherlands
‐ Origins and impact of the first Dutch Invasion abroad [1969-1973]
‐ Festivals of bilateral exposure and competition
‐ Routes and impact of postcolonial world musics
‐ A signature song of Flanders
‐ A signature song of the Netherlands
‐ Dutch language and local dialects
‐ Urban cultures in shifting contexts [hip hop]
‐ Pop and the Welfare State
‐ Social dancing in the calvinist North as compared with the catholic South
‐ Relatively big influences from elsewhere in Europe [French, Italian, German]
‐ Changes in musical orientation within the immediate aftermath of World War I and World War II
‐ There’s No Limit: The local world of intergalactic dance production
‐ Zooming in: Belpop Bonanza phenomenon [pop history on stage]
‐ Zooming in: original musicals with local popular music subjects
‐ The meaning of success in The Low Countries
‐ Role and impact of pirate pop radio at the North Sea
‐ Splendid isolation turned extravert: Volendam (NL)
‐ The principle of artistic cooperations in Flanders rock scene [1990s]
‐ Representation and image construction in Eurovision Song Contest
‐ Content and meaning in popular song lyrics about the separate nations
‐ Marginality and tokenism in hypermedialized societies
‐ Dutch contributions to Flanders pop culture and vice versa
‐ Johnny Hoes (Telstar, NL) and Jacques Kluger (World Music, BE): two cases of
popular music industry tycoons with a crossover vision
‐ The commercial medium of music: a concise history of the sound carrier in the
Low Countries [e.g. Philips co-producer walkman, cd]
‐ Postcolonialism shared and unshared [divergent colonial histories, divergent
postcolonial music scenes]
‐ Etcetera, etcetera.